Theme | Number | Quote |
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Dynamic model of the participation behaviour | ||
Q1.1 | “My husband has been retired for 2 years. He worked until he was 65 years old and we have time, we are managing our own time and we will try to enjoy our lives to the most.” [VNT004,49,non-participant] “It’s like, I try to enjoy each day, you can never know how quickly it may be over.” [VNT007:78,non-participant] | |
Q1.2 | “We both volunteer, so that, too, is one of the positive things.” [VNT008:51,non-participant] | |
Q1.3 | “It’s like this: we would like to get rid of the obligations we had throughout or lives and which we enjoyed fulfilling, that’s not the question, I enjoyed raising children.” [BNT007:58] | |
Q1.4 | “Regarding the process or whether one regards a certain sport as being sensible and so on, you pick what suits your type and what you still have the strength for. For example, I cannot play tennis anymore” [VNT010:129, non-participant] | |
Key factors related to perceived fit of the PA intervention | ||
Time management of everyday life | Q2.1. | “Usually, in summer, I am on the golf course two or three times a week. And my additional exercise has been going to the gym on a regular basis for 8 or 9 years.” [VT001:8,participant] “So, I exercise two or three times a week, plus I go hiking once a month, I would do that twice, though [ … ]. I need to have fixed appointments, at least partly.” [VNT009:62,71,non-participant] “But if I do participate it means that there will be a meeting once a week and this will be scheduled. It is not optional.” [BT001:55,participant] |
Q2.2 | “I no longer make plans other than on the spur of the moment. I can call the travel agency tomorrow and ask whether they have anything. And if they do I will be at another place the day after. I am living spontaneously and enjoying the present.” [VNT005:85,non-participant] “I always have the feeling that I do not like to be tied, I think. Don’t know if I am right, just my thoughts. I want to do what I want at any given hour. Thus, I don’t like to be told what to do.” [BNT007:38,non-participant] “I am, I hadn’t heard of it before and basically I wouldn’t have minded to participate. But that would have meant being tied in terms of time and I did not want that because we have been travelling a lot.” [VNT008:63,non-participant] | |
Q2.3 | “We have all been in this sports club for 40 years [ … ]. All seniors, just 14, 15, 16 people. And we go there every Tuesday. Gymnastics and volleyball, in former times [ … ].” [BNT005:11,non-participant] “I have been there since I was young and I still do their accounting, too. One, twice, three times a month.” [BNT005:33,non-participant] | |
Q2.4 | “If I do something like this there is indeed some group pressure, but a very relaxed one. [ … ] That goes for any type of sport I would engage in.” [VNT006:154,non-participant] | |
Goals addressed primarily with PA | Q2.5 | “I have this pedometer and so I always have a clue. Today I did 4.000 steps and the day before that I did 15.000 steps. So I manage this and will do so, eventually, regarding food.” [VT002:14,participant] |
Q2.6 | “I am individualistic and wish to exercise accordingly. Hiking is okay, no doubt. Enjoying and feasting from the landscape is nice but please no high performance. If I have to be competitive I lose all desire.” [VNT009:25,non-participant] “A walk there and back, on the beach. It is so expansive, you don’t even notice the 10 kilometers. Only the vastness of the landscape.” [VNT001:185,non-participant] | |
Q2.7 | “As for me, I consider it sensible, physical activity as well as establishing social contacts.” [VT001:12,participant] | |
Q2.8 | “For me it’s good that I can rate myself. I find this very important for me. And afterwards I pat myself on the shoulder and say ‘It’s not that bad yet.” [VT002:62,participant] “When I am physically active and I feel that my body is still cooperating I think that’s positive. I get the feeling that it’s good being able to do today what many younger persons cannot. I have to say that I am sometimes very proud when I look around myself.” [OT001:24,participant] | |
Multidimensional typology of participation behaviour | ||
‘Health designer’ | Q3.1 | “[ … ] that it would be obvious for me to attend a meeting of the program, there is a reason for it.” [BT001:49,participant] |
Q3.2 | “[ … ] and in case you have a day which is not so good, well, you have to overcome your weaker self.” [VNT007:74,non-participant]. | |
Q3.3 | “[ … ] initially, I liked the idea very much to do this under supervision. Basically, I liked it but as I said before, it simply became too much for me. I had joined a sports club, I wanted to play golf again, I wanted to pursue my other leisure activities.” [VNT004:51,non-participant] “Usually, in the summertime I am on the golf course for two or three times a week. Plus the exercise I get by going to the gym on a regular basis for 8 or 9 years now [ … ]. Adding to that, I spend about 45 min on the ergometer, biking steadily because riding my bike into town is not so great for the heart.” [VT001:8,participant] | |
Q3.4 | “Since I retired, I usually always carry a pedometer in my pocket so that I can check whether I have walked enough in the evening.” [VNT004:9, non-participant] | |
‘Flexible Function-oriented type’ | Q3.5 | “I don’t consume alcoholic beverages and I don’t smoke. Even my doctor said “Well done, good decision.” [VNT006:76,non-participant] |
Q3.6 | “Particularly when you get older, it is important to stay fit [ … ]. I can feel it now that it won’t be possible without physical activity. But is has to be done at a level that one can decide for themselves and spontaneously, whatever and wherever.” [VNT006:12,126,non-participant] “That I am not tied, it has to be an open and casual group in which I can decide for myself.” [VNT001:527, non-participant] | |
‘Comparison and competition type’ | Q3.7 | “When you are successful through sports and physical activity you almost automatically have a nice evening.” [BNT001:90,non-participant] |
Q3.8 | “And then I thought I am joining in, just to find out whether in a comparative group or amongst the people who also joined in, well, whether I am the weakest one who always hobbles behind or whether I am average [...].” [VT002:32,participant] “[ … ] and whenever new and young men join the group and fail I say to myself it’s good you joined and stayed.” [OT001:24–28,participant] | |
‘Fun and Wellness-oriented type’ | Q3.9 | “I only exercise when I enjoy it. But I don’t consider that as health and fitness training.” [BNT007:8,non-participant] |
Q3.10 | “I am individualistic and wish to exercise accordingly. Hiking is okay, no doubt. Enjoying and feasting from the landscape is nice but please no high performance. If I have to be competitive, I lose all desire.” [VNT009:25,non-participant] “I enjoy geocaching like you wouldn’t believe it. There are the most awesome hiding places [ … ]. Yes, I very much enjoy that.” [BNT004:76,non-participant] | |
Dynamic factors influencing the type of participation behaviour | ||
Biographical experience with structured PA programs | Q4.1 | “In winter, as a pupil I participated in the sledding championships with my friend and we ended up first. We received a certificate.” [BT001,23,participant] |
Q4.2 | “Boys like to define themselves by physical performance and in that regard I was always at the back. That frustrated me somewhat so that I gave it up then.” [VNT008:45,non-participant] | |
Q4.3 | “Yeah, gym class! I’ve always enjoyed that, actually. I was always there, too.” (OT001:14,participant) | |
Q4.4 | “Actually, it was a compulsory subject. You didn’t have a choice. You had to do sports and be physically active.” [VNT001:5,non-participant] | |
Awareness of physicals signs of ageing | Q4.5 | “You aren’t getting younger. Some things don’t work out the way they used to, but I think one has to take a bit of care of the things one is still capable of doing.” [VT001:8,participant] |
Q4.6 | “I know from experience that time and again I will come to a point where I do too much for myself, then I hang around and develop bad feelings.” [VNT002:58,non-participant] | |
Social integration | Q4.7 | “If one lives alone it might happen that some days you think to yourself ‘Oh my god, I haven’t spoken to anyone today,’ if one doesn’t go out.” [VNT007:54,non-participant] |
Q4.8 | “Then take care of grandchildren a little more, meet our friends, relieve the children but first of all we want to travel. [ … ] This obligation to go someplace. That’s it, the group pressure and fixed appointments which is what I’ve had for so many years.” [VNT006:96,126,non-participant] |